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Patented July 24, 1923.

UNITED STATES JOHN BABIARZ, OF NEW SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

CASHIER PROTECTOR.

Application filed June 12, 1922.

To all whom 2'21 may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BABIARZ, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at New Salem, in the county of Fayette and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCashier Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in protective devices for banktellers, cashiers and others handling a large quantity of money and theprincipal object of the invention is to provide a device designed toprotect the teller from injury by the dropping of armored curtain guardsat the windows and doors including the cage and also to trap theassailant and expel a gas, such as tear gas, or other noxious substance,which will render him helpless.

These and other analogous objects are attained by the novel design,construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described and shownin the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of thisdisclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the interiorof a tellers cage showing an embodiment of the device mounted for use,the wall of the building being indicated at the rear.

Figure 2 is a face view of the front wall of the cage, showing the'screen lowered.

Figure 3 is a fra mentary detail View, partly in section, of t e screenand gas containing reservoir.

Figure 4 is a wiring diagram showing the method of wiring the device.

Figure 5 is a similar diagram showing the wiring of the cashiers cageand station at a point remote therefrom.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates the outer wall of abuilding having the usual door opening which is ordinarily provided withdoors 11. The tellers cage is partitioned 01f by the customary partition12 and is provided with the usual shelves 13 extending below the windowopening 14 in which the customary grating 15 is secured.

Secured across the upper end of the door opening in the wall 10 is ahousing 16 in which is mounted a steel curtain or screen 17 normallyrolled on a suitable spool, its movements being controlled by a gear 18.Channel guides 19 are arranged vertically at the opposite sides of thedoor opening Serial No. 567,854.

and are adapted to receive the side edges of the curtain 17 when thesame is in lowered position, and duplicate devices are provided to coverall of the other doors and windows of the building.

Similar channel guides 20 are arranged at opposite sides of the windowopenings 14; in the tellers cage 12 and extending horizontally above thewindow openings are housings 21 which normally contain curtains orscreens 22, preferably formed of steel or other metal to act as armorplates. These curtains are wound upon spools connected to the shaft 23extending longitudinally of the housings 21 and the movements of thisshaft are controlled through the gear train 24 by a suitable motor 25.

As illustrated in Figure 1, the shaft 23 is provided with a bevel gear26 meshing with a mating gear on one end of the shaft 27, the oppositeend of which is provided with a bevel pinion 28 meshing with the matingpinion 18 so that, when the motor is set in operation, all of thecurtains 17 and 22 will be simultaneously lowered.

Secured within the cage 12 is a reservoir 29 having at its upper end anoutlet opening to which is connected a nozzle 30 opening outwardlythrough the wall of the cage. A. piston 31 is slidably mounted withinthe reservoir 29, and secured to said piston to extend through a packinggland 32 in the bottom wall of the reservoir, is a tubular plunger 33,its lower end being provided with a flange 34 for engagement with theupper end of a coiled compression spring 35, the lower end of saidspring abutting a bracket 36 secured to the wall.

It will thus be seen that the plunger will be urged upwardly under theinfluence of the spring 35, causing the piston 31 to expel the contentsof the reservoir 29. In order to hold the spring compressed and theplunger inactive, a latch member 37 is provided, one end being disposedbeneath the lower end of one of the panel members 20 so that when thescreen is lowered, the latch will be moved to open position.

Extending through the tubular plunger 33 is a valve plunger 38, itslower end secured to a bracket 39, which extends angularly, as shown inFigure 3, and has its end disposed beneath the lower end of the channel20, so that when the curtain drops, the valve 40 will be unseated andallow the contents of the reservoir to be forced outwardly through thenozzle 30.

In order to control the movements of the motor, there is provided asuitable power source 41, leading from one terminal of which is wire 4L2connected by means of a branch wire 43 to push buttons or other contactmaking devices 4:4. Obviously when the push buttons 44: are pressed andthe contact completed, the motor 25 will be set in operation and thescreens 17 and 22 lowered. As the screen 22 reaches the lowermostposition it engages a contact member 45 mounted on the shelf 13 directlybeneath the window, thus completing the electric circuit from the powersource 41 through the visual and audible signals 46 and 47, which may belocated at some distant point wherever desired.

Such construction is shown in Figure 5, a portion of which representsdiagrammatically a station remote from the bank building, as that forpolice, fire, etc. and in which a plurality of like signal devices maybe entered, each bearing the street and number, together with audibleand visual signals, and

a key operated means for opening the circuit, closed by the persons inthe bank.

lVhile certain preferred embodiments of this device have been shown anddescribed, it will be understood that changes in the form, arrangementsand details thereof may be made without departing from the scope of theinvention as defined in the claim hereto appended.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A device of the class described comprising the combination with a cagehaving a window, of a protective screen associated therewith adapted toclose the window, manually controlled means for moving said screen toclosed position, a g as reservoir as sociated with said cage, a springactuated piston operable in said reservoir adapted to expel the gas fromsaid reservoir, and means for releasing said piston upon the comple tionof the closing movement of the screen.

In witness whereof I afiix my signature. 50

JOHN BABIARZ.

